Beale Street Mama 1946

Wives, lock up your husbands! Husbands, run for your lives!

Directed by Spencer Williams

The film is set in Memphis, Tennessee and focuses on a street sweeper who comes upon a large parcel of money. He uses the newly acquired wealth to go on a spending spree, with the hope of getting back at an old girlfriend who dumped him for another man. However, complications arise when it is discovered the money is counterfeit.